Hour of Code December 8-14 with Kidzworld & Tynker

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Hour of Code - Academic partnership between Kidzworld & Tynker!

Join Hour of Code with Kidzworld & Tynker

Our goal is to inspire children & teens to learn with code during Hour of Code Week! Last year over 45 million students participated in this worldwide learning phenomenon. This years goal is to have 100 million students join in worldwide.

(PRWEB)December 08, 2014

It's Hour of Code Week!
Last year over 45 million students participated in this worldwide learning phenomenon. This years goal is to have 100 million students join in worldwide. Kidzworld & Tynker have partnered up to make this the best Hour of Code yet!

http://www.Kidzworld.com - a safe, secure, social network & online magazine for kids and teens is committed to bringing the richest online experience through educational content, games and a robust online community of over 2.3 million monthly users.

http://www.Tynker.com - Tynker's creative computing platform helps children develop computational thinking and programming skills in a fun, intuitive and imaginative way. The innovative visual programming language, interactive self-paced courses, game-based programming activities and mobile applications provide an easy introduction to programming, and encourage children to innovate and create. Over 8 million kids and 10,000 schools have started using Tynker in homes, schools, summer camps and after school clubs.

“We are delighted to participate in the worldwide Hour of Code initiative”, says Kidzworld CEO Allen Achilles “We strive to offer the highest quality educational content to our users, which is why we chose this opportunity to partner with Tynker, a Company that has a proven track record for exceptional service in the computer science space.”

What is Hour of Code?

The 'Hour of Code' is a global movement inspired by CSEdWeek and http://www.code.org to introduce computer programming to tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. This year, 'Hour of Code' will happen in classrooms around the world the week of December 8­-14, 2014.

Kidzworld & Tynker, Education Partners

Kidzworld is pleased to offer students the opportunity to embark on a coding adventure with personalized characters, the opportunity to make animated cards, and to build their own multi­level games. Upholding the quality of Tynker’s award­winning courses and apps, all activities for Hour of Code support common standards.

In partnering with Tynker, Kidzworld is able to offer a wide variety of activities that ensure all students no matter how much programming experience they have, will find fun and challenging coding activities to try.

For students who have already started programming, Tynker has available games and tutorials which will ensure young programmers move to the next level in their ability. Kidzworld is pleased to offer a brand-new game exclusively built by Tynker, our programming partner.

Let’s Talk! Get ready for the Hour of CodeTM with Kidzworld! Like Kidzworld on Facebook, follow @Kidzworld & @goTynker on Twitter. We’d love to follow your progress, please hashtag #kidzworld or you can also sign up or sign up for our free newsletter.